WESTMINSTER, Calif. – A “hard money” lender was sentenced today to 34 years and four months in state prison for embezzling over $3.2 million from investors in a Ponzi real estate-mortgage investment fraud scheme. Defendant Charges Sentence Thomas Franklin Tarbutton, 58,...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A former student is scheduled to be arraigned today for threatening a mass shooting at Soka University (Soka) in Aliso Viejo on YouTube and in emails to a staff member. Defendant Charges Maximum Sentence Court Date David Kenneth Smith, 39, Los An...

A couple who ran a South Los Angeles private school has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16- year-old student in 2000, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced today. Joseph Horace Green (dob 5/17/65) was charged in case BA201238 with four counts of unlawful sexual inter...

A Duarte man was charged today in connection with the fatal shooting of a deer in Monrovia, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Michael Jackson Rodriguez (dob 2/5/84) was charged in case GA102229 with one felony count of procuring and offering a false or forged instrument...

A 60-year-old man was sentenced today to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the kidnapping and killing of a Palmdale gas station attendant in 1978, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced. Neal Antoine Matthews was convicted in September of one count of first...

SANTA ANA, California – A licensed psychiatrist who practices in Long Beach has been sentenced to over four years in federal prison for paying a $30,000 cash bribe to a revenue agent with the Internal Revenue Service who was auditing the man's tax returns. Dr. Harshad Shah, 62, of Cypress, was se...

LOS ANGELES – A U.S. Army contracting officer representative who admitted taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from South Korean contractors in return for approving fraudulent invoices was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison. Marcus D. Flowers, 51, of Enterprise, Alabama, ...

LOS ANGELES – A Simi Valley man who admitted that he distributed child pornography – including a video with a filename indicating an 8-year-old girl was being abused – has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison. Eric Allen Haensgen, 38, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judg...

A federal court entered an order against three Los Angeles area telemarketing companies and two executives, the Department of Justice announced today.  That order, entered by Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald in the Central District of California, permanently bans the companies and one executive from f...

SANTA ANA, Calif. – A music producer was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in state prison for pimping and pandering four women in Orange County and Los Angeles. Defendant Charges Sentence Brandon Christopher Ramsay,...